Now, as he frequently asked Thwackum to explain difficult passages to him, that gentleman unfortunately took notice of Tom's name, which was written in many parts of the book.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

439-460 Sinnis 83 fell too, who barbarously used his great powers; who was able to bend huge beams, and used to pull pine trees from aloft to the earth, destined to scatter human bodies far and wide.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

The commissioners observed that the great majority of those thus effected were females, and that these exhibitions did not begin until they had been under the operation of magnetism one or two hours, and that, when one became affected, the rest were soon seen in the same situation.
— from The Spirit Land by Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) Emmons

Whatever they may think of my philosophy, have I been just to their practical fervour and to their energetic devotion?
— from The Sources of Religious Insight by Josiah Royce

British vessels were to be admitted into American ports without any further addition to the existing discriminating duties, and on terms equal to the most favored nations.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

Tom was still eager to get in touch with his father and telephoned the electronics department to bring another set to his laboratory.
— from Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Appleton, Victor, II

Many beetles are coloured so as to resemble the surfaces which they habitually frequent, and they thus escape detection by their enemies.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

Those who knew both the Emperor and Madame de Persigny might have fitly argued that this equal division of affection was a virtual injustice to the sovereign, who was decidedly more amiable than the spouse.
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

“Even to-night something of the soft summer smell of her is in my nose; and if I were not old I would walk far, walk far; for that smell is like a voice calling over big waters and many valleys—a voice so far away that the ear does not catch it—so thin that it is no sound, but a feeling.
— from The Lonesome Trail by John G. Neihardt

Some of the princes, in the olden time, were in the habit of eating fresh fish at their tables every day that had been brought in this way for a hundred and fifty miles.
— from Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China by Thomas Wallace Knox